MS Flight Simulator 2020

I use an old Saitek joystick with a split throttle control x52 or such. I guess they got bought out by Logitech now. Had mine for for a long time, right about the time USB started being used.

similar to this one but the buttons on the throttle are different has a small LCD display.



Like this throttle but is split like the one above.

Graphics are really, really impressive. Can't wait to start playing this game.

Can't wait to crash into the CA hills while looking for my (now burned down) childhood home.

I wonder how old the map data is...

i can pre-install this on my PC, and it says its 152 gigs (!!!!!) even though it only downloads 10 megs

I guess I’ve officially hit middle age when a flight sim is my most anticipated game release of the year.

Gonna wait and see how it goes early on. I'm planning a new computer build soon and I'd have to do a pretty major upgrade to use this I'm pretty sure. I will use the old one a lot. But mostly play out of date games. See how it goes.

yaph said:

I guess I’ve officially hit middle age when a flight sim is my most anticipated game release of the year.

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Takes me back to high school. Got sub logic flight sim and friends and I played the hell out of it.

Any mention of multiplayer support? To the flight enthusiasts, it might seem blasphemous, but I used to love connecting to someone with my 56k modem back in the day, and then we'd play "tag" , or land at the same time, etc. Just stupid shit, but it was fun.

people have been streaming the game already (early access? streamer privilege?) and i've seen a few people play multiplayer, no clue how it works but i assume you can invite friends and stuff into your game

www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Microsoft%20Flight%20Simulator

Squirrel has had early access for awhile I know. He just couldn't stream it. He's one of the better Simulator streamers.

The MS Store says it releases tomorrow at 2PM.

store shows available Aug 17th, 9pm PST for me as playable (+12 hours basically from right now), preloadable now. i have ultimate

Anyone else have the impression anything performance related is still under NDA? Both reviews I've read mention nothing about it and I have my doubts about a GTX 970 running this on FHD high details.